Deploying a new government service or application involves manual work such as procuring and preparing hardware, configuring operating environments, and enabling monitoring solutions. This manual work takes time, is error-prone, and can produce inconsistencies.Key DevOps practices such Infrastructure as Code (IaC), continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) and automated testing, allow you and your team to develop and release changes...

DSI’s 3rd annual Information Warfare Symposium is designed as an educational, training “Town Hall” style forum, where thought leaders and key policy-makers across military services, government agencies, acquisition authorities, academia & industry will be brought together for actionable discussions and debate on how advances in electronic warfare and cyber technologies are transforming the modern battlefield operations ...

As the global pandemic continues and countries wait for a vaccine, estimates about when federal employees will return to their offices in force range from Summer 2021 to Never. Many organizations have discovered the advantages of telework and now plan on expanding its use, even when there is not a snowstorm or health crisis. Although some jobs require on-site personnel, the Office of Personnel Management said that 42% of federal employees are...

Join us for a 4-part educational series on how event streaming enables legacy modernization and cost reduction. Our leading Apache Kafka experts will share how customers are improving customer experience and operational efficiency with a real-time data pipeline - eliminating the point-to-point connections and allowing your services to scale effectively and teams to work with one another. We will explore these topics and more: Rethink tradition...

Due to the ongoing conditions surrounding COVID-19, AUSA has determined that it would be in the best interests of the community not to host an in-person Global Force Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama this March. The health and safety of our attendees, exhibitors, partners, and staff remain our top priorities. We are committed to returning to Huntsville for a live event when we can do so safely and responsibly. We will certainly miss being in Hu...

In October of 2020, then-Defense Secretary Esper defined defense readiness as "our military’s ability to answer the nation’s call, and to fight and win, anytime, anywhere. … The question we must answer is this: if called upon to fight tonight, are we ready?" Ensuring that answer is "yes" demands change in every corner of the Department of Defense, and especially in the technology that will power tomorrow's military. Cybersec...

The AUSA Noon Report brings the popular Breakfast Series from our headquarters with the same quality content, essential topics and timely information you have come to expect from AUSA programs. Join key leaders from the defense industry, academia, military and government for this timely presentation with live Q&A on Wednesday, 10 March. There’s no cost to attend this event. Register today – space is limited! LTG Potter will add...

What do people look like when they are on your network or accessing a website or system? In most cases, a person is assigned a username, role and access rights that govern their interactions with the organization or agency. This controls what they can and cannot do within a network, application or website. But what should bots look like when they are operating on your network? Interestingly, a bot should not be treated differently: it must be...

Despite decades of science demonstrating that organizations with more diverse leadership perform better, women and minorities remain grossly underrepresented in management positions across the Federal Government. Building a diverse leadership team requires building equity into every career development decision that creates great leaders, from initial branch assignments in the military to lateral assignments in the civil service. Internal mobil...

Whether it's delivering better care for veterans, transforming internal business processes to make federal employees more effective and efficient, or improving the citizen experience on federal websites, digital government aims to enable better government. New tools and technologies are an essential part of these efforts, but the true transformation takes place in the analog world -- rethinking business processes, changing the workplace cultur...